BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...

Subject: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 06:28 PM

Hmmmmmmmm?

According to former CIA agent, Paul R, Pillar, Bush "'cherry picked' intellegence on Iraq to justify a decision that had it already had reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Husssen".

Pillar, who was the national intellegence officer for the Near East from 2000 to 2005, went on to say, "It has become clear that official intellegence was not relied on in making even the most most significant national security decisions, that intellegence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policy makers and intellegence officers, and that the intellegence community's own work was politicized".

BTW, Pillar was considwered to be the agency's leading counterterrorist analyst.

Source: The Wsahington Post, Feb. 10th, 2006, "Ex-CIA Officail Faults Use of Data on Iraq", Page A-1...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 06:37 PM

that's about the 27th time I've seen that basic point made....I don't suppose anyone will listen to him, except those who are already convinced.

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 06:49 PM

Oh, No! You mean.......

BUSH LIED ?????

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Epona
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 06:52 PM

I'm shocked! Okay, no I'm not. But at least I will always be able to say I didn't vote for him...either time. Thank the other half of America.

E

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Kaleea
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 06:58 PM

dubblepew? lie? jeepers! shock & awe! Of course he didn't lie--he merely chose which "truth" he would sell the world.

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 07:13 PM

How could we allow him to be reelected??

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:30 PM

Well, with the arguments and investigations coming up on the Bush administration's manipulation of intellegence, it is important when folks who were "insiders" come out and stand up...

Sure, lots of us are of the opinion that Bush is a liar, but there's also Karl Rove, the master of turning chicken sh*t into chicken salad and so I'm real glad that a few insiders have the courage to step up to the plate...

We shouldn'd allow ourselves to become bored by this... That's what Karl Rove wants and expects...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:36 PM

I don't really think it was up to us, GUEST,AR282. I think it was Diebold made that decision.

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:44 PM

It was Eisenhower who said that the next greatest problem the world would face was the US companies making military arms.

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 09:58 PM

That was an astute observation, coming from a man who'd made the study of war his life's avocation.

Re the original post: this is news?

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Peace
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 10:11 PM

I find that hard to believe. Bush lie? Naaaaaaaaaaaaa . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 07:24 AM

Inside the beltway if you use the word lie, your career will dead end.
Lieing is is the means by which most people here earn their living. IT is normal operating procedure to extort, lie and cheat but you can never call it that. So new words and phrases have been devised to package the most ugly in delightful patterns and ribbons.

Instead we say; spin, artfully motivate or to give a different take.
To deviate from the normal prevarication in this town is considered to be a foolish and naieve thing to do.

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Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Troll
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 12:27 PM

"..former CIA agent..."

Who is Pillar working for NOW. Remember, where you stand depends upon where you sit.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: CIA Agent: Bush Cooked the Books...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 06:06 PM

He is now a professor at Georgetown University... Do you think Georgetown Universtity put him up to telling the truth, troll???

Hmmmmmmmm??? Now that would be a strange twist of events, indeed...